Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 2 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 3 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 4 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 5 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 6 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 7 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 8 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 9 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 10 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 11 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |
| 12 | That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ? |
| 13 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 14 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 15 | When she did it the second time . |
| 16 | Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . |
| 17 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 18 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 19 | As we examined it the man from behind the desk appeared soundlessly at our side . |
| 20 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 21 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 22 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 23 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 24 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 25 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 26 | When he touched it the doors swung open instantly and with a disconcerting noiselessness . |
| 27 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 28 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |